Saturday, May 1, 2010

MAY DAY


May 1st ... MAY DAY.

We don't really honor it or celebrate it, but it's nice phrasing ... May Day ... it works. The origins of May Day come from the Romans. The first day of May was devoted primarily to the worship of Flora, the goddess of flowers. It was in her honor that a five day celebration, called the Floralia, was held.

Gradually it made its way to
England and then, with the early American settlers, over here. It came to be regarded more as a day of joy and merriment for the kids, rather than a day of observing false gods.



And be blessed.

2 comments:

Karen said...

Love it - I always mean to take flowers to my staff and never remember to do it! Maybe tomorrow - better late than never. At Woodstock we always celebrated May Day with a big festival complete with a May Pole dance and May Day Queen, Princess and full court! I was runner up for May Queen my junior year....lost out to Mary Kay who had been at Woodstock since birth, who dated Jonathon, also a Woodstockite since birth, both fabulous people, both with 8 to 10 siblings each who attended Woodstock....They are married now. Very accomplished, wonderful people! He's a minister. There was no paganism involved in our celebrations - just fun!

PK's BLOG said...

Yeah - don't you just hate those "MARY KAY" types? :) Get better.